in a sweat

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in a (cold) sweat

very frightened or anxious I dreamed I'd left the tickets at home and woke up in a cold sweat. Just the thought of addressing all those people is enough to bring me out in a cold sweat. (= make me feel very anxious)

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After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context Then we went down, being in a sweat to know what the letter said. Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context But the HOUYHNHNMS train up their youth to strength, speed, and hardiness, by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills, and over hard stony grounds; and when they are all in a sweat, they are ordered to leap over head and ears into a pond or river. Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context			in a jam in a jiffy in a lather in a little bit in a mad rush in a manner of speaking in a month of Sundays in a New York minute in a nut shell in a nutshell in a pickle in a pig's eye In a pig's eye! in a pinch in a pique in a quandary in a row in a rut in a second in a sense in a snit in a spot in a stage whisper in a stew in a stupor in a sweat in a tight spot in a tizzy in a twit in a twitter in a vacuum in a vicious circle in a way in a word in a world of own in abeyance in absentia in accord in accordance with in action in addition in advance in agreement in all but name in all likelihood in all modesty in all my born days in all probability in an age of years in an interesting condition in an ivory tower			in a pinch in a pinch in a pique in a quandary in a quandary in a row in a row in a row in a rut in a second in a sense in a sense in a sense in a sense in a sense In a Silent Way In A Similar Manner in a similar way In A single Round in a snit in a split second in a spot in a stage whisper in a state of action in a state of flux In a state of nature in a state of uncertainty in a stew In a stound in a stupor in a sweat in a tight spot in a tizzy in a tough spot in a twinkling in a twinkling in a twit in a twitter in a twitter in a twitter in a vacuum in a vicious circle in a way in a way in a way in a way in a way In A While Crocodile in a wink in a wink in a wink in a word in a word in a word in a word in a word in a world of own in abeyance in abeyance in absentia in absentia

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